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Let me pray with you.

Dear heavenly father we come before you this morning just so incredibly grateful for your word so credit so incredibly grateful to be at church.

That is built on the foundation of your word.

Lord what a blessing we have.

You have equipped us with everything that we need to fulfill your purposes for us.

There is nothing we lack because we have you.

We've been redeemed by your son.

We are filled with your Holy Spirit.

And we have your word is our God.

Holy Spirit, we pray that you will fill us this morning to take in your word to understand it more clearly than ever to fall in love with it more deeply than ever.

We pray these things in Jesus name.

Amen.

So this morning we're going to starting a new year and everything.

We're going to continue taking a little break from John will pick up on that next week.

And I want to I want to look at Psalm 19 and I've titled this a voice to save her a voice to save her.

It's kind of a coming down off the holidays message.

How many of you this past week have said something along the lines of we survived the holidays.

I see Hands.

I hear laughter of acknowledging Smiles me to the holiday season this whole season from Thanksgiving through New Year's just has a tendency to wear us out especially.

Ken and I have talked about this down here where it's warm this time of year because you can actually do stuff and people aren't mad at each other because they're cold and cranky.

Why is it though that in all seriousness?

Why is it that the holiday season where is us out?

So bad.

Is it not good stuff.

I mean giving thanks.

Time to be grateful for what?

We have the birth of Christ.

That's a big one.

Obviously that's good stuff to celebrate celebrating a new year.

We get together with families and have all these good get-togethers and whatnot.

Why is it so stressful?

Because we overcomplicate things that we have to do things such as keep this tradition.

This kid.

My family got married now has two families worth of commitments to keep plus that kid over there in this family got married, and now they have to family commitments to keep and no one and they did the same and someone else did the same in the family.

And before you know it the holiday task list has multiplied like the most brilliantly crafted pyramid scheme mankind has ever known and the main goal of enjoying Christmas with family, but we're trying to do gets replaced with the goal of keeping a tradition to bring back Old Times rather than loving the family that we have now.

And what should be our most joyful occasions turn into a stressful ordeal.

But we're off and just glad to have over with.

Is that really a way to live?

I'm so we make commitments to simplify next year, but almost nobody follows through why?

Because it's a product of the way, we live our lives it exemplifies.

The way many of us live out our walk with God and the way we often function as Church.

The main goal of enjoying Christ and savoring the vision strengthening and spreading the vision of his glory as a church gets clouded by programs and traditions that helped us to do those things.

But the means to that goal of savoring strengthening spreading the glory of God the means to get to that goal ends up becoming the goal and then the real goal Christ gets forgotten.

I don't do New Year's resolutions.

I don't I don't like them.

I believe if I find send in my life I Repent of it if I see something that I need to improve improve it.

I believe in improving when you see a need for it and if a person needs a novelty to make a change there never going to be committed enough to actually stick with it because they lack conviction what I like to do and what I'd like to do this morning.

For new years since we start a new year is look at conviction.

And strengthen the conviction that we already have because we are a church that is convicted by the word of God.

We're church that serious about the word of God.

And we're committed to hearing his voice.

And because of that we have seen God do some amazing things in this church amazing things that we might in the busyness of everything forget about and just or just not recognized.

But do you realize in the last 15 months we've experienced we had six baptisms 6 baptisms in the last 15 month.

We have more of them on the docket coming up very very soon.

Where in the double digits for professions of faith in the past 15 months?

People getting saved a lot of things happen if there's a Revival happening in the church that you don't even really notice.

But that's the way the kingdom of God works.

A lot of times.

It starts like a mustard seed.

Together we have built a highly effective children's ministry.

And notice how much better are churches gotten with greeting and just and just being aware of these things.

But we've built a highly effective children's ministry as well children grow deeper children getting saved.

We are growing deeper is a church all of this all of it.

It just come through deepening our commitment to God's word.

see a lot of churches putting a lot of Hope in different things and focusing on all kinds of activities and programs and Ministries busy with busy work some busy with busy work trying to do good with good Hearts behind it some just trying to survive keep their head above water keep the lights on.

Are people growing deeper our souls being saved?

As we head into a New Year, let us take this Sunday.

To reflect deeply on our commitment to God's voice that has been proving so effective in this place.

So as we walked through psalm 19, the main point is this The voice of God fills the ears of those who long for him bringing a pathway of righteousness to desperate Sinners Like Us.

Let me read with you song 19 verses 1 through 14.

Just Psalm 19.

The heavens declare the glory of God and the sky above proclaims his handiwork day to day pours out speech and night to night reveals knowledge.

There is no speed nor are there words whose voice is not heard their voice goes out through all the Earth and their words to the end of the world and then he is set a 10 for the sun which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber and like a strong man runs.

Its course with joy its Rising as from the ends of the heavens and its circuit to the end of them and there is nothing hidden from its heat.

The law of the Lord is perfect Reviving The Soul, the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple the precepts of the Lord are right rejoicing the heart.

The commandant of the Lord is pure enlightening the eyes.

The fear of the Lord is clean enduring forever.

The rules of the Lord are true and righteous altogether more to be desired are they than gold even much Feingold sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb more in keeping them.

There is great reward declare me innocent from hidden faults.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins and let them not have dominion over me.

Then.

I shall be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight.

Oh Lord my rock and my redeemer.

We walk back through this.

Out of our Point number one comes out of verses 1 through 6, and that's this.

We hear God's voice.

When we Savor his glory in his creation.

When we Savor his glory and his creation looking first one.

The heavens declare the glory of God and the sky above proclaims his handiwork when you're reading through psalms and you see these little inventions note that this is kind of how you recited a maid of the Hebrew poetry Works in thought patterns more so than rhymes like we do in English and so you have a main point stated and then you have a supporting Point behind it.

The heavens declare the glory of God and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

See creation serves as a declaration of God's glory.

And it's our task to pay attention to this.

Whenever we go traveling and our last trip just reminded me of this.

You see all kinds of different things when you go traveling.

I'm not talking about the crazy stuff.

It just has a weird happened to us when we're traveling the landscape the Beauty and the scenery around you.

I love driving up through North Georgia East Tennessee see in the mountains.

We won't speak of Illinois cuz being a guy from Eastern Missouri, we won't speak of Illinois, but Western Kentucky and Missouri, you see the farm Fields as a joke by the way, don't get offended if you're from Illinois, but you see the farm fields in the Rolling Hills just Laden with crops and Hardwoods hickory's White Oaks Red Oaks.

It's beautiful.